Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 376

Kevin Teague wrote:

Uninstall as a command feels a little weird. Since "python setup.py [some-command]" implies that the setup.py contains information about the distribution that the command is being applied to. So instead of:

$ python setup.py uninstall some_package

It could just be:

$ python setup.py uninstall

I was actually thinking of something more along the lines of:

python -m distutils uninstall <whatever>

(Older Pythons won't reliably let you execute a package like that, but 3.1+ and 2.7+ let you do it by including a __main__ module in the package)

However, having uninstall as a command supported by setup.py also makes a certain amount of sense.

Cheers, Nick.